Topic: 40 years ago today Roberto Clemente
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1 2012-12-31 12:42:00 (edited by airportdon 2012-12-31 12:47:39)
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Can't believe its been 40 years. He had the best Damn arm ever for a outfielder in baseball.
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My all-time favorite baseball player. I am (barely) old enough to have seen him play in person a few times.
If anyone's interested, David Maraniss wrote the definitive biography of Clemente in 2006.
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He was certainly Pittsburgh's hero. Greatly revered. We were blessed to have him on our side!
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In the days when real heroes were in abundance he was one that stood out. I remember my old wooden bats and two stand out in memory: Willie McCovey's which had a fat head and Roberto's which was black and narrow and an ounce lighter than Willie's bat. I remember Clemente had a temper that equaled his right arm and a generosity that's rarely seen these days.
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Curby wrote:
In the days when real heroes were in abundance he was one that stood out. I remember my old wooden bats and two stand out in memory: Willie McCovey's which had a fat head and Roberto's which was black and narrow and an ounce lighter than Willie's bat. I remember Clemente had a temper that equaled his right arm and a generosity that's rarely seen these days.
Was the black bat with grey knob and/or tape?! Adirondack or Louisville?!
Back when the sports world was sports, not a bunch of bs, the IMMEDIATE induction into the Baseball Hall Of Fame that (New Year '73) year was righteous.
I got to defrag my brain hard disc to see if I have a file on seeing him in a game. It would have been in San Francisco 1970...ok Pooh Bear, think, think, think...(might have to ask the old man! HIS brain defrag could take a loooong time, lol 
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7 2013-01-01 14:16:14 (edited by Curby 2013-01-01 14:17:14)
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Rocket wrote:
Curby wrote:In the days when real heroes were in abundance he was one that stood out. I remember my old wooden bats and two stand out in memory: Willie McCovey's which had a fat head and Roberto's which was black and narrow and an ounce lighter than Willie's bat. I remember Clemente had a temper that equaled his right arm and a generosity that's rarely seen these days.
Was the black bat with grey knob and/or tape?! Adirondack or Louisville?!
Back when the sports world was sports, not a bunch of bs, the IMMEDIATE induction into the Baseball Hall Of Fame that (New Year '73) year was righteous.
I got to defrag my brain hard disc to see if I have a file on seeing him in a game. It would have been in San Francisco 1970...ok Pooh Bear, think, think, think...(might have to ask the old man! HIS brain defrag could take a loooong time, lol
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket
It was a Louisville Slugger and no tape. I can't recall if it had a grey handle, but think maybe it did. In the summer after Little League was long over I would walk to my empty little league park with a bag of balls and a few bats and play a game where a ball hit over the fence was a run and everything else was an out. It was always the Reds, Cardinals or the Dodgers against the Yankees. After every "inning" I'd go out and retrieve all the balls and start the next inning at home plate. Thank God there were none of the modern distractions and it was the fresh (hot) air, the bat, the ball and a little boy's imagination. I knew every team's players and diligently went through each line-up.
I made up a number of games to pass those long summers.....yeah, the good old days. Think I'll cue up John Fogerty....
8 2013-01-01 15:40:54 (edited by Rocket 2013-01-01 15:53:10)
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Curby wrote:
Rocket wrote:Curby wrote:In the days when real heroes were in abundance he was one that stood out. I remember my old wooden bats and two stand out in memory: Willie McCovey's which had a fat head and Roberto's which was black and narrow and an ounce lighter than Willie's bat. I remember Clemente had a temper that equaled his right arm and a generosity that's rarely seen these days.
Was the black bat with grey knob and/or tape?! Adirondack or Louisville?!
Back when the sports world was sports, not a bunch of bs, the IMMEDIATE induction into the Baseball Hall Of Fame that (New Year '73) year was righteous.
I got to defrag my brain hard disc to see if I have a file on seeing him in a game. It would have been in San Francisco 1970...ok Pooh Bear, think, think, think...(might have to ask the old man! HIS brain defrag could take a loooong time, lol
Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
RocketIt was a Louisville Slugger and no tape. I can't recall if it had a grey handle, but think maybe it did. In the summer after Little League was long over I would walk to my empty little league park with a bag of balls and a few bats and play a game where a ball hit over the fence was a run and everything else was an out. It was always the Reds, Cardinals or the Dodgers against the Yankees. After every "inning" I'd go out and retrieve all the balls and start the next inning at home plate. Thank God there were none of the modern distractions and it was the fresh (hot) air, the bat, the ball and a little boy's imagination. I knew every team's players and diligently went through each line-up.
I made up a number of games to pass those long summers.....yeah, the good old days. Think I'll cue up John Fogerty....
I think our Little League team had one. I think I used it to bunt in practice. I did not bunt in games...
I used to toss balls up on the roofs, two modes, one way up sky high (old house with multiple roofs and levels of them), another up to another (lower) high apex down to the more flat den roof where I wouldn't know exactly where it would come down (and it was a short and not very high roof). Trouble was it made racket inside that I "guess" was unbearable (what that I did wasn't unbearable in our house?!). I also threw balls against the foundation wall for grounder practice, calling games and making "star" plays through all of this. The "star" had to replace some shingles he shattered 
! Made the switch to tennis balls for life-saving purposes...
Batting (broken windows were NOT cheap and kids, not parents like today, had to pay 'em off!) we had to round up a few for a pickup game at our fine village athletic fields. Sometimes full 9+ a side (not unusual for kids to just walk to the fields, [no texting, emailing, heck, not even using the phone]with a glove and maybe a ball and those with a little money a bat or 2) and sometimes maybe just 3 of us, 1 to pitch, one to bat, one to shag (more likely to chase-we had no fences 
)!
Put me in Coach! I'm ready to play!
Roberto was definitely exciting and inspirational...
Waxing nostalgic,
Rocket
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Re: 40 years ago today Roberto Clemente
also my favorite baseball player of all time. I was a huge Pirates fan after the world series in 1960 and remained so until I jumped on to the Braves bandwagon in the early 90's. He was a great man first, a great player secondly. RIP Roberto.
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